In late September many voices
Tell you you will die.
That leaf says it. That coolness.
All of them are right.

Our many souls - what
Can they do about it?
Nothing. They're already
Part of the invisible.

Our souls have been
Longing to go home
Anyway. "It's late," they say.
"Lock the door, let's go."

The body doesn't agree. It says,
"We buried a little iron
Ball under that tree.
Let's go get it."

- Robert Bly, from Morning Poems, posted to allspirit

Freedom means letting go. People just do not care to let go of
everything. They do not know that the finite is the price of the
infinite, as death is the price of immortality. Spiritual
maturity lies in the readiness to let go of everything. The
giving up is the final step. But the real giving up is in
realizing that there is nothing to give up, for nothing is your
own. It is like deep sleep - you do not give up your bed when you
fall asleep - you just forget it.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj, from I Am That - Talks with Sri
Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to AlongTheWay

Surrender is to surrender your concept of separateness, your ego.
Surrender is to submit your stupidness, your wickedness, to the
will of Existence. That's all. You must surrender like a river
discharging into the Ocean. Surrender is to discharge your river
of separateness into the Ocean of Being, losing your limitations,
and allowing to happen what happens.

- Papaji, posted to AlongTheWay

In reality only the Ultimate is. The rest is a matter of name and
form. And as long as you cling to the idea that only what has
name and shape exists, the Supreme will appear to you
non-existing. When you understand that names and shapes are
hollow shells without any content whatsoever, and what is real is
nameless and formless, pure energy of life and light of
consciousness, you will be at peace - immersed in the deep
silence of reality.

- Nisargadatta Maharaj, posted to ANetofJewels

The true understanding comes from outside. It is not of the
space-time dimension. Therefore, we can only call it Grace.
Keeping your being open and receptive to that other dimension is
a matter of Grace.

- Ramesh S. Balsekar, posted to Distillation

Iblis asked, "Can you tell a lie from the truth,
you who are filled with illusion?"
Mu`awiyah answered, "The Prophet has given a clue,
a touchstone to know
the base coin from the true.
He has said, "That which is false troubles the heart,
but Truth brings joyous tranquility."